Interesting article about how Hollywood portrays the internet in movies: Hollywood's Take on the Internet Often Favors Fun Over Facts. (It's on the Wall Street Journal, but they're having a "ten day open house" so you don't have to be a subscriber to read it.)

Since I'm so familiar with the internet, it's always been a pet peeve of mine to see how movies treat things like email. I guess it makes sense that if something like that is a key plot point, you want it to be big and obvious and not open to interpretation.

Link from textually.org.